Every ailment known to man...

So, my excuse for not updating this thing for so long is, as the title suggests, that I have finally succumbed to the non-glamorous side of travelling, being sick. Never before have I had the need to wonder if it´s okay to take tylenol, gravol, and immodium in the same hour. Let alone wondering all that while you´re sitting on an overcrowded 20 hour busride with no airconditioning, and have a bad sunburn... So for all of you who are hard at work, rest assured that there are definately moments I wish I was back in Vancouver eating normal food (and with a clean bathroom nearby!!) But for now, I´m feeling pretty back to normal...

I´m now in Peru... some highlights of Ecuador included: the gringo-infested but still pretty cool traditional market in the town of Otavalo, standing on the equator (that picture with the weird monument in the background), scrambling up a couple of peaks over 5000m, including that gorgeous red one in the picture (and gasping for air!!), and a roof-top train ride on a train I think had seen better days... felt a couple of times like it might flip over!!

It was a hard transition from Colombia into Ecuador; soooooo many more tourists. I hate feeling like I´m just along on the ¨tour¨... Peru is quite touristy as well, but it probably doesn´t help being in places like Machu Picchu (where I´m heading tommorow!) which is probably the most visited site in South America.

So I´m now more than half-way through my trip. Feels like I´ve been gone forever, but there´s also still so much I want to see in a little over 2 months. Although I haven´t been thinking about the rain, I do miss Vancouver, which is kind of a nice feeling to know that I like where I live. (Remind me I said that next winter when I´m whining!!)

Peace out!!!

Kate